# phral
## Balkan Romani
### Alternative forms

* pral (Bugurdži)

### Noun

phral m
* (Bugurdži, Crimea, Kosovo Arli, Macedonian Arli, Sepečides, Sofia Erli, Ursari) brother

#### Derived terms

* bičačuno phral
* epaš pral
* jek a jek phral
* mašteho phral
* phral bičačo
* phralikanes
* phralipe
* phralořo
* phraluno
* poluphral
* rateskere phrala

## Carpathian Romani
### Alternative forms

* pral (Gurvari, Hungarian Vend, Romungro)

### Noun

phral m
* (Burgenland, East Slovakia, Gurvari, Prekmurski, Veršend) brother
    Synonym: (Veršend) gulo phral

#### Derived terms

* baro phral
* dujevlastnengero phral
* dujto phral
* epaš phral
* gulo phral
* moštovno phral
* phraleskeri čhaj
* phraleskero čhavo
* phralikano
* phralipe
* phralutno
* pralooro
* strično phral

## Romani
### Alternative forms

* phal, pral

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrā́tṛ). Cognate with English brother.

### Noun

phral m anim (accusative phrales, nominative plural phrala, accusative plural phralen)
* brother
    Coordinate term: phen

#### Declension

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#### Derived terms

* phralikano
* phralipen

#### Descendants

* Angloromani: pal, palla, pel, pral, prala, pralla, pulu
** → English: pal
*** → Afrikaans: pêl
* Caló: plal

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhrāˊtr̥”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 552
* 1 2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “phral”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 237a
* 1 2 Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
* ↑ Milena Hübschmannová (2001 January) “Phral (Brother)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o phral, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 297a
* ↑ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “phral, ~a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 154a

## Sinte Romani
### Alternative forms

* pral

### Noun

phral m
* brother
* comrade

#### Derived terms

* dadeskero phral
* dajakero phral
* štifpral

## Vlax Romani
### Alternative forms

* pral (Kalderaš, Lovara)

### Noun

phral m
* (Banatiski Gurbet, Gurbet, Kalderaš, Lovara, Macedonian Džambazi, Sremski Gurbet) brother
** (Sremski Gurbet) stepbrother
* (Gurbet, Macedonian Džambazi) fellow man (also for a peer or friend)

#### Derived terms

* moštoho phral
* opašophral
* phralesko
* phraleso
* phralika
* phralikane
* phralikano
* phralimasko
* phralimos
* phralipe
* phralka
* phralořo
* romňako phral
* unoko phral
* upašophral
* čačo phral